Gossip

Justin Bieber stirred up lots of trouble on a tour stop in Brazil, allegedly partying with prostitutes and then sparking a police hunt for him when he sprayed graffiti on a hotel wall. Sources told the New York Post the rambunctious pop icon spent more than three hours in the “Centauros” brothel in Rio de Janeiro, before leaving with two women. Photographs showed Bieber being escorted from the establishment by his security team, with a bedsheet draped over his head. Bieber, 19, denied the reports on Twitter. “Don’t believe the rumors,” he tweeted. Police in Rio de Janeiro said they were investigating “an act of vandalism” after Bieber was photographed spraying graffiti on a wall, and would arrest him if he returned to Brazil.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are suing one of YouTube’s founders for secretly videotaping the rapper’s lavish marriage proposal to the reality-TV star. The couple alleges that Chad Hurley violated a nondisclosure agreement by videotaping the moment West got down on one knee in AT&T Park in San Francisco, turning their special moment “into one starring himself.” The Silicon Valley entrepreneur posted video of the proposal to his new video-sharing site, MixBit, and tweeted it to more than half a million followers. The footage, says the suit, was supposed to be aired exclusively on MC Cable Television, an arm of the company that produces Kardashian’s reality-TV show.

Denise Richards wants to stop looking after Charlie Sheen’s twins with actress Brooke Mueller, saying the 4-year-old boys are violent and out of control. Richards, who was married to Sheen from 2002 to 2005, took temporary guardianship of Bob and Max Sheen earlier this year, while Mueller attempted to kick a long-term drug addiction. But according to TMZ.com, Richards has told social services she can’t handle the boys, claiming they kick and scratch her dogs and assault her two young daughters with Sheen. Richards said the twins are more violent after returning from visits with Mueller. Sheen has described Mueller as “an awful parent” and is seeking custody of the twins.

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